Architectural Thought : The Design Process and and the Expectant Eye
one curved shape at the top, another at the base with twisted surfaces in between. Jim Glymph, a principal in Frank O. Gehry &am ...
on pre-existing models. These are not necessarily within archi- tecture; Wilson admired the painting of St Jerome in his Study, ...
service provision and so on is a difficult and necessary task. It is the basis of much design. In the last resort, however, it i ...
The same issue of the Architectural Review– December 1997 – which illustrates the Bilbao Guggenheim also devotes space to the ar ...
Menil Collection in Houston which he designed with Peter Rice. The later Twombly Gallery by Piano in the same ‘museum cam- pus’ ...
Piano uses the roof to provide that control; Gehry tends to use the whole volume. He had done so earlier at the Vitra Internatio ...
DL: I was interested when I was in India by the tenuous nature of the cross-axial order in most Islamic buildings. A building li ...
gate, and they normally had niches with people’s sculp- ture in them: so we ought to have niches with pay phones, thinking that ...
we did there.” Then he’d make a modification and see where something was appropriate. Wherever a prece- dent existed, we would t ...
P 1 to P 2 is not surprisingly an iterative process in the work of any architect. Some architects have made statements which rel ...
the Jewish history of Germany and of Berlin. I felt that certain people and particularly certain scientists, composers, artists ...
‘To summarize this four-fold structure: The first aspect is the invisible and the irrationally connected star which shines with ...
They are also made very often as a result of a reaction against some existing trend; the new becomes a criticism of the old or, ...
When I look at Epstein’s sculpture of the Madonna and Child on a wall in Cavendish Square in London, for example, and see the Ch ...
74 Below Renzo Piano Building Workshop;Debis Site, Potzdammer Platz, Berlin, 1992–2001 ...
75 Below Frank O. Gehry & Associates, DZ Bank Headquarters, Pariser Platz, Berlin 1995 – 2000, main atrium ...
designs working in the same city at the same time. The results are, however, dramatically different. In view of what we see it i ...
tradition. Architects have no choice but to live danger- ously. They work with all sorts of raw materials, and I don’t just mean ...
‘The act of building is not and cannot be just a question of technique, for it is charged with symbolic meaning. This ambiguity ...
circularity, in this sense, is not just methodology, and still less procedure. It is, to use high-sounding words, a theory of kn ...
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